Anyone got a good recommendation

[ukwdwnut]

for a good router with a decent range and reliability

ive currently got a speedtouch 585v6 and its losing speed all the time loses connection wireless just goes to a standstill like 4mbps at its lowest and its driving me nuts

[ukwdwnut]

no one at all has got a router they recommend wow im surprised

[catrancher]

Well, I'm real pleased with my Apple Airport!

But I don't necessarily think you'd want one of those!

Netgear and Linksys both seem to have reasonably good reputations. Linksys is owned by Cisco and while that doesn't necessarily mean much, Cisco's reputation in the business environment is stellar.

Tom (... it's a Mac thing!)

[ukwdwnut]

Well, I'm real pleased with my Apple Airport!

But I don't necessarily think you'd want one of those!

Netgear and Linksys both seem to have reasonably good reputations. Linksys is owned by Cisco and while that doesn't necessarily mean much, Cisco's reputation in the business environment is stellar.

Tom (... it's a Mac thing!)

no i dont think so tom although if i had a mac i would

yeah i was thinking of those two plus belkin, but wanted some recommendations from peeps

im testing a thomson out at the mo and its been reliable so far been at 54mbps all the time where mine is all over the place, will do a spedd test on it and see if its better than before, downloads seemed a lot quicker but that depends on so many factors anyway

[Keith]

...and I didn't reply for the following reasons

1. I have a rather expensive cisco ADSL router which kept losing dsl sync. After many days on the phone with cisco, it just seems that the chipset cisco use is quite happy to sync higher than it can reasonably hold and on certain types of DSLAM can't/won't sync down again :/ so.............

2. I researched every dsl chipset and came to the conclusion that the best speed and stability would come from the speedtouch 585v6 yep, the one you already have! so I have the speedtouch doing the DSL, then I use the CISCO to route the network BUT because the speedtouch 585v6 WIFI is rubbish, I turned that off and bought...............

3. an apple airport The airport has been spot on perfect and works with pcs just as well as it does with macs.


So not much point me replying when I was only going to recommend stuff you had and stuff you didn't want but other than that my comments are, stay away from 3com and as Tom says linksys are good but be sure to buy UK specific since UK linksys wifi uses a higher power than EU/US so gives a better signal that can penetrate walls much better.

[ukwdwnut]

thx keith well as usual your input is welcome and good info too

ok i think it might be a linksys then

the thing is with the speedtouch keith is when the wifi is really slow, as low as 4mbps on the odd occassion so is mine on the desktop which is hard wired dont ask me why ive no idea

[catrancher]

3. an apple airport The airport has been spot on perfect and works with pcs just as well as it does with macs.

Odd... I was going to mention that the Airport works just fine with PC's but thought that perhaps people were getting tired of me sounding like a Mac zealot all the time.

Can't help it! I just believe!

Tom (... quick, all Apple fanatics. Over here in this corner!)

[foreverducky]

I have a Belkin that works wonderfully! I had to go through several different kinds before I got one that worked (not this one specific but brands)

[ukwdwnut]

ooooo i missed the apple airport being compatible with the pc. will have a look at how much


ok thx for that billie

[ukwdwnut]

do you think its worth upgrading the firmware first and see what happens ?